Pre-Match

Last Updated: 18 February 2014

Leyton Gains?

Good wibble. Like many of the teams towards the top end of the League One table, Leyton Orient are little more than a tiny speck as we look the long way up from the dingy surroundings of bottom place. Defeat at Rotherham United wasn’t the end of the world, but …

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Get The Subs On…

Do you remember our trip to Wolverhampton back in November? It isn’t a trick question – and we completely understand if you’ve chosen to forget any memories you may have of that particular city. The hosts, they sang “we’ll never play you again” as if to have us think the …

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Thrills And Gills

Has it stopped raining? Do we actually think we might see some football this week? It’d be nice to think so – one-and-a-half weeks since the Everton game and two-and-a-half weeks since our last league game, we were starting to get withdrawal symptoms. First up now we have a fixture …

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Is This One Actually Going To Happen?

If you haven’t been paying attention this January, it’s either been raining its arse off or the English Channel is now 20 miles larger than it was. Most of southern England is no longer there – submerged and no more than a British version of Atlantis, except with more Tesco …

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Be Bop A Crewe-laa…

The year is 1956 and some fella called Gene Vincent is on the verge of making it big on the other side of the pond after dabbling with what the kids call “rockabilly”. Britain is cocking things up over the Suez Canal, the people of Australia are introduced to television …

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Mersey Boys – The Broad(hall)Way Musical

Now then, we come to a game that we’ve been waiting the best part of a month for – home to Everton in the FA Cup. It is Boro’s reward for dumping out Doncaster Rovers in the last round, and – optimistically speaking – our chance to get some sort …

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Notts County: The Pre-Match Lowdown

Now wasn’t that better? Under the lights at the Lamex on Tuesday night, we may just have got our season back on track with a fine win against Swindon Town. We entertain the guys and gals of Notts County this weekend; a fantastic opportunity for us to continue on a …

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And Onto Swindon…

This is all beginning to get a little bit disconcerting now. Losing at Oldham at the weekend has left us four points adrift at the bottom of the table and – if we’re honest – has put us in a position that we’re not all that familiar with. Our FA …

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Out With The Old…

Time to put Everton and talk of the FA Cup aside – back we go to league action and time to start moving in the direction that most call “up”. There’s little doubt that 2013 wasn’t quite the happy clappy year we’d hoped it would be. Ho hum and on …

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Still Raining Then…

Unless biblical floods have swept half of South Yorkshire away by the time you come to read this, it looks like the Boro’ will finally be getting underway in 2014 at the lovely Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster this weekend. In case you forgot under the weight of festive pies and …

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